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Beauty and the Bastard (2005)
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Beauty and the Bastard (2005)
Original name: Tyttö sinä olet tähti
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
Style: semi serious, captivating, entertaining, melancholic, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot: music, opposites attract, hip hop culture, love and romance, love affair, lifestyle, self discovery, forbidden love, friendship, rap, coming of age, school, youth, bet, fall in love, couples, medical school, r&b, graffiti, singer, father daughter relationship, best friend, nightclub, perfectionist, male female relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century, contemporary
Place: finland, europe

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Most similar movies to Beauty and the Bastard

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, lifestyle, friendship, love and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Beauty and the Bastard: The Singer (2006), Preacher's Kid (2010), Strictly Sinatra (2001), Honey & Clover (2006), Lapland Odyssey (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Singer (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, couples, change of heart, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, performer's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unlikely couple, singer, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Preacher's Kid (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, destructive relationship, youth, couples, friendship, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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Strictly Sinatra (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his only friend. Toni dreams big and enters a local television talent show. About that time, a local Mob ...
Style: realistic, suspense, captivating, enigmatic, independent film ...
Plot: gangster, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, ambition, music, love and romance, relationship vs career, jazz, singer, unfulfillment, fall in love ...
Place: scotland, europe, new york, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Honey & Clover (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
Style: realistic, touching, sweet, captivating, manga ...
Plot: love triangle, self discovery, couples, coming of age, lifestyle, youth, college, love, friendship, asian, superhero, introvert ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Lapland Odyssey (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even ...
Style: light, entertaining, intense, funny, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, date night
Plot: friendship, ultimatum, self discovery, male nudity, lapland, on the road, youth, obsessive quest, adolescence vs adulthood, taxi driver, nothing goes right, escapades ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe
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31%
Nine Chronicles for a Screaming Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, couples, hopes, starting over, solitude, life changing, male female relationship, relationships, self discovery, romantic relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Singles Ward (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Jonathan Jordan gets divorced he's thrust back into the world of being a single Mormon - a world who's ultimate goal is eternal marriage. Struggling to fit in, Jonathan decides to stop going to church only to be pursued by the members ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: church, lifestyle, family relations, couples, love and romance, religions or cults, mormon, divorce, love affair, male female relationship, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: salt lake city utah, utah
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28%
Crazy from the Heart (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: high school, interracial relations, couples, workplace romance, social differences, love affair, looking for love, small town, small town life, opposites attract, society, self discovery ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Brooklyn Babylon (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, serious, crime drama ...
Plot: friendship, interracial relations, culture clash, social decay, social differences, tragic love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, street life, musician's life, racism, love affair ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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2 Young (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young boy from a working-class family and a bored young girl from a rich family are falling in love. Soon, she's pregnant and the teenagers have to escape from their disapproving parents.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, teenage love, on the run, forbidden love, social differences, couples, young lovers, lifestyle, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Chasing Destiny (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Music, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A repossession agent falls in love with a woman whose father is high on his list of priority accounts in this romantic drama.
Style: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: opposites attract, love affair, friendship, lifestyle, destiny, family business, looking for love, parents and children, family relations, couples, musician's life, buddies ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles
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26%
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Cocktail (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: beach, love triangle, friendship, beach party, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, love affair, love and romance, nightlife, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Tbilisi, I Love You (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Following "Paris, Je t'aime" "New York,I Love You" and "Rio, Eu Te Amo" “Tbilisi, I Love You” has become the next film in the “Cities of Love” franchise.
Style: captivating, sexy, atmospheric, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, friendship, love affair, couples, fall in love, couple relations, city life, sexual relations, sexual content, love and romance
Time: 21st century
Place: tbilisi, georgia
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25%
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Bus Palladium (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lucas, Manu, Philippe, Jacob et Mario s'aiment depuis l'enfance. Ils ont du talent et de l'espoir. Ils rêvent de musique et de gloire. Leur groupe de rock, Lust, connaît un succès grandissant, mais les aspirations de chacun rendent ...
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, sexy ...
Plot: youth, music band, music, artists and showbiz, rock band, teenage love, friendship, music industry, jealousy, nightclub, singer, blues ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Trouble with Men and Women (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A bitter-sweet romantic tale set in London, depicting the sentimental education of a young man who is absurdly confused about women.
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: love affair, couples, friends, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, buddies, wooing, love triangle, friendship, breakup, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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One Love (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Jamaica, Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile ...
Style: emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: jamaican, reggae, love, music, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, unfulfillment, contests and competitions, ambition, clergy, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jamaica, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Love Songs (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a ...
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, sexual
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, age-gap relationship, single parent, infidelity, music band, music, love and romance, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, gender ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, europe, new york, usa, france
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24%
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, sexual
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, high school life, school, young love, friends, youth, high school, teenage life, teachers and students, teenage crush, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Lion's Heart (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ivana Cornejo is just getting used to being single again after her divorce three years ago. After an exasperating call from her ex-husband, she throws her cell phone away. Fortunately, the man who finds it calls her to return it, and to her ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, romantic relationship, introspection, couples, unlikely couple, love and romance, relationships, couple relations, in love, love affair, prejudice, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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23%
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Heartsong (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min.
Story: While serenading a wedding that quickly implodes, a nomadic musician falls for the bride, who runs afoul of her family. Now he has to save her life.
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: musician, male female relationship, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wedding, couples, love, escape
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23%
Your Life in 65 (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Sunday, three young friends read the obituary of a schoolmate with whom long ago they lost contact. They go to the morgue and realize that they are wrong: that burial is not that of their fellow student. From this, the confusion and random weave a ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, romantic ...
Plot: love story, friendship, partner, friends, buddies, love and romance, gender, couples, mistaken identity, love affair, twentysomething life, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Song from the Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This poignant love story stars Amy Grant as a beautiful, blind concert cellist who falls for a famous, self-centered pianist but doesn't realize that true love is right before her eyes.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, feel good, emotional ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, blind man, love, relationships, concert, couples, disability, power relations, musician's life, music, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Tiny Times (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When four best friends try and move forward in their work and personal life, they realize that trying to live their life's dream is more difficult than they imagine -- especially in the high fashion world of Shanghai.
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, fashion, coming of age, relationship vs career, ambition, youth, looking for love, couples, best friend, female friendship, fashion magazine, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: shanghai, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Restless (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. ...
Style: melancholic, sexual, humorous, touching, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, male pubic hair, friendship, love triangle, redemption, change of heart, fall in love, infidelity, sexual relations, love and romance, cuckolded husband, male nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: finland, europe
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23%
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Midnight Sun (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kaoru was suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), an illness, which also might be described as the allergy to the sun, and was not allowed to be exposed to sunlight. The only motivation in her life was singing, which also was the only connection ...
Style: psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic ...
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, friendship, obsessive quest, love affair, surfing, love and romance, teenage life, illness, friendship between girls, teenage love, teenage protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Year of the Nail (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, experimental ...
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, couples, hopes, unfulfilled love, teenage life, friendship, society, loss of virginity, looking for sex, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Lovers & Leavers (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: innocence lost, sex scene, hopes, introspection, looking for love, couples, couple relations, love affair, male female relationship, insomnia, love, male nudity ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: europe, finland
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22%
Holiday Harmony (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A likeable and talented underdog gets momentarily sidelined from chasing her musical dreams when her van breaks down in a welcoming small town just before Christmas.
Style: entertaining, feel good, captivating, humorous, light ...
Plot: christmas, love, holiday, singer, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, relationships, couples, male female relationship, town
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Hotaru the Movie: It's Only a Little Light in My Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Set two years after after "Hotaru no Hikari" drama series, Hotaru Amemiya learns that her boss and now husband Seichi Takano has dreamed of vacationing in Rome, Italy like in the movie "Roman Holiday". Hotaru then makes plans to ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, romantic relationship, strong female presence, nothing goes right, fish out of water, twentysomething life, disorder, misfit, wedding ceremony ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Straight From the Heart (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: opposites attract, fish out of water, couples, love and romance, relationships, male female relationship, marriage proposal, love affair, romantic triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wyoming, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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